The man on 10 naira note Alvan Ikoku established the first indigenous private sec. school in Nigeria, Aggrey Memorial College, Arochukwu, present-day Abia State, in 1932.

The man on 10 naira note Alvan Ikoku established the first indigenous private sec. school in Nigeria, Aggrey Memorial College, Arochukwu, present-day Abia State, in 1932.

Ikoku introduced Carpentry as a subject, which he called “the Education of the Hand.”
Interestingly, students were able to make their own desks, chairs, and tables all by themselves.

…Indeed there was a country .

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